"Ms. Lin Qingyi, right? We are the Yanjing Six Gates Criminal Investigation Department..."

It was late at night when Lin Qingyi got off the plane. She had just switched her phone back to normal mode and before she had time to make a call, a call came in.

She didn't want to answer the call, but the Yanjing area code and the conspicuous three digits made her answer it subconsciously.

Listening to the unusually harsh questioning on the phone, Lin Qingyi panicked, "Yeah."

"According to China...according to the law..."

The voice on the other end of the phone continued: "There are only two options before you now. The first is to surrender to the airport police and seek leniency. The second is... Do you understand?"

"Ah."

The little girl had never experienced this before and was almost frightened to death on the spot. Even so, when she hung up the phone in a daze, tears were still in her eyes, which made her particularly pitiful.

This scene frequently attracted the attention of fellow passengers on the airport shuttle bus. Some who thought they were strong wanted to step forward to comfort her, but were blocked by two sturdy female security guards.

Seeing the muscular girl with unfriendly eyes and obviously surrounding the girls, those with ulterior motives were discouraged and felt unlucky in their hearts.

Lin Qingyi didn't know that this kind of life would continue for a long time in the future.

As a chess piece thrown out to attract attention from all parties, her fate was doomed from the beginning.

Unless someone is willing to go to great lengths to protect her...

"Aunt, what's wrong?"

Wu Qingyu was very curious as to why she became like this after answering a phone call.

As Lin Qingyi's best friend, she was by her side when she received the call in the evening. Seeing Lin Qingyi crying, she found out that there was an emergency at home after asking.

She volunteered to accompany him, which was reasonable.

At the same time, she was more curious about the phone call Lin Qingyi made before. She could clearly hear that the voice on the phone was very young. Was that Qingyi's boyfriend?
Isn’t he the old man with a big belly and thin hair that you imagine?

As they were asking, they suddenly heard a horn sound from the front, and everyone on the shuttle bus looked curiously, only to see two honking cars coming towards them with their lights flashing.

Lin Qingyi only took one look and her whole body trembled violently. Wu Qingyu became even more curious. What happened?
Why would this type of car appear on the airport runway?
"Hey, why is the police car driving onto the runway?"

"I don't know, maybe something happened?"

People in the car were talking about it.

It wasn't until the Wow car turned around on the spot and followed the shuttle bus, signaling to pull over that everyone on the bus was shocked. Was it really coming for them?
Lin Qingyi almost had half of her body hanging on Wu Qingyu, which made the latter a little panicked. She lowered her voice and asked, "Auntie, what happened?"

Lin Qingyi didn't know what to say, "No~"

I subconsciously checked my phone, but that person hadn't sent me any messages.

This made her very desperate. Could it be that she was abandoned like this?

Yes, from the very first second of registering with the company, he didn't want to get involved in its specific affairs. I guess he had in mind this day and night, right?

I was just too stupid. I knew there would be problems. After all, how could such a big company need an outsider as the legal representative?

There must be some inside story that I don't know about.

What happened next further confirmed her guess. Until the shuttle bus stopped and the door opened, the two female security guards who usually followed her closely showed no intention of getting off the bus.

"I was abandoned?"

Lin Qingyi didn't know how she got off the car or how she got back on.

She didn't come to her senses until the car drove out of the airport. Fortunately, Wu Qingyu was so stupid that she somehow got into the car as well.

……

"Hey, I didn't see you asking me to be with you when you got rich. Now that you have money, are you planning to share the happiness with me?"

Xu Xin made no secret of her dissatisfaction on the phone. More than 30 billion US dollars. If she had so much money, why would she go to all the trouble to do venture capital?

"I didn't make any money, I just made some pocket money."

Li Zehua stood by the river, feeling the cool spring breeze, his mind was calmer than ever before, "Sister Xin, you won't miss this little money, right?"

Xu Xin was almost yelling, "What do you think of me? This little money? More than 30 billion US dollars, which is more than 200 billion RMB.

Can send you directly into the Forbes rankings.

No, even without the $34 billion, you can still be on the list this year, and even the obvious No. can’t compare with you.”

As Xu Xin spoke, his defense broke down again.

Once upon a time, the person on the other end of the phone was bargaining with me for 5% of Pinduoduo's shares worth million US dollars.

Although the 5% has shrunk by nearly half after Pinduoduo's split and secondary financing, the valuation of Pinduoduo's group buying alone has reached a terrifying US$80 billion.

As a result, Tomorrow Capital’s investment in the company skyrocketed by nearly 20 times in just eight months.

However, compared with the more than 50% stake held by Li Zehua through Qingyun Investment, Qingyun Capital and Hong Kong Foundation, it is not worth mentioning.

This alone brought him a nominal increase in net worth of more than $40 billion.

In addition, at the end of 09, BOE, which had 82 billion shares and a market value of over RMB 200 billion, issued him 11 billion additional shares.

BOE recently announced that it plans to issue two 20% additional shares within the year, nearly 41 billion shares, and the beneficiaries will be Qingyun Investment. By then, it will hold approximately 52 billion shares of BOE, with a shareholding ratio of over 38%.

At the age of 21, he became the controlling shareholder of a listed company with a market value of tens of billions, and he also owns several startups with valuations of over tens of billions. What kind of monster is this?
If Forbes can sort out the specific equity information, this guy's nominal net worth is at least over 10 billion US dollars!

He is definitely the richest man in Tokyo University, and can be ranked among the richest men in the world.

Xu Xin was very jealous, especially because he was making money by investing in Chinese stocks overseas, but he didn't even take the opportunity to have a share of the spoils?

Facing the accusations from his allies, Li Zehua still played dumb and said, "No, Sister Xin, don't imagine. It's not that much. I just made a few hundred million yuan outside."

Before Xu Xin could continue to attack, he quickly got down to business, "It's all in the past, but I have a good opportunity to make money. I can't say I'm going to make a fortune, but I can still make some pocket money.

I wonder if Sister Xin is interested in participating."

Xu Xin changed her previous attitude and tried her best to hide her joy. "What kind of opportunity is it? Tell me about it."

"How about the international Zhengzhou cotton futures trading? Are you interested in participating?"

Xu Xin was a little confused, “Domestic, cotton prices have risen quite a bit recently, do you think it will continue to rise?

But wouldn’t it be better to go overseas and earn dollars?”

"Of course, Chicago will also participate, but the main battlefield is in China. If Sister Xin can contact her good friends in Zhengzhou Stock Exchange, we can work together and maybe have a go."

Li Zehua does not intend to eat alone this time, and he is not qualified to eat alone.

"This is my plan. If Sister Xin can win over enough friends who are influential enough, we will do something big at the Zhengzhou Stock Exchange.

If there are fewer people and the amount of capital is not that much, then just follow and earn some pocket money.

But there is one thing: the friends you can bring in must be the kind who can strictly keep secrets. You have to be frank in order to prove your strength and integrity.

Every friend who comes in must provide a minimum deposit of more than 50 million yuan, which must be deposited into a joint operation account. If anyone is found to have leaked the information, the money will not be refunded.

Of course, I can come forward to provide a bottom line. If anyone does not get the same amount of profit this time, I will personally pay to make up for it..."

Xu Xin lost her voice and asked, "Fifty million deposit?"

"This is just a threshold. If you can't even come up with this little money, how can you prove that you have the ability? Besides, I never said that the profit is just this little!"

Li Zehua smiled confidently. In history, someone made 600 billion from 20 million through cotton futures. Now if he were to trade, he could make money on both ends. Only God knew how much he could earn in the end.

Anyway, at the beginning, he didn't intend to reveal a single word to Xu Xin and others. All they could see was the option of going long.

If the Qingyun Group enters the market on a large scale and goes long, it will definitely attract attention from others. If it is just one company, it will inevitably attract competitors to dump the market and clean up the market, and it can bring in enough strategic allies. Even the capital in Jiangsu and Zhejiang will have to weigh it carefully, whether to tear up and offend a large group of people, or to join hands to make a profit.

The scripts are ready. First, follow the Jiangsu and Zhejiang capital to go long, cooperate with the Squid Capital to reap a wave of profits, and then go short before the price reaches its peak.

At the same time, they will dump the cotton stocks that they have purchased from all over the world into the market together with the national reserves, severely smashing the market, trapping all those who are trying to make a fortune from the national disaster and bleeding them one by one.

At that time, in addition to dealing a heavy blow to the capital that is against him, he can also make a lot of money, half of which will be used to support textile enterprises and stabilize the situation.

The other half is used to develop instant messaging software and promote offline micro-payments. Both resources and funds are indispensable.

This cotton transaction is a good opportunity to find strong and like-minded allies.

He was not worried at all that things would change because of his involvement, because Squid Capital had been planning for a long time and the arrow was on the string and had to be launched...

One reason why he did not invest most of his funds overseas was that his money was needed to secretly purchase cotton and store it around the world.

The physical mortgage of foreign guarantees and domestic loans is equivalent to turning one dollar into two dollars. The US dollar is used to buy cotton spot and the mortgage is exchanged for RMB, and then an order for 100-150 million tons of future cotton futures is placed in the Western Region Province.

The cotton futures contract was then secretly used as collateral to obtain a loan of more than 100 billion RMB, which was invested in the Pengcheng project and the agricultural service company.

The agricultural company used the remaining money, plus the funds he replenished in the middle, to purchase inventory cotton from the market, and invested it in the futures market after mortgaging it, striving to complete the layout in July, September, and November.

If the plan goes smoothly, by October, he and his team will have 200 to 250 million tons of cotton in stock, which is more than the national reserves.

By cooperating with the above-mentioned actions and dumping the price into the market at 30% lower than the futures price, the capital from Jiangsu and Zhejiang that was engaged in long-term trading would be wiped out in less than a week.

Maybe I can also take the opportunity to complete my layout in the textile industry.

As for why he didn't expand into foreign countries on a large scale, it was mainly because he couldn't influence the Chicago agricultural products trading market. Moreover, he was in someone else's home turf, so he could just secretly place an order and eat some meat.

If it really gets out of hand, it will just force people to unplug their Internet cables. Such fantasies as making 100,000 bets and reaping billions of dollars at the peak can only be realized in dreams.

The rules are made by others. Although there is a strong demand from Dongda, no one stipulates that futures prices must reflect the spot market.

To put it bluntly, whoever has more money can control everything.

What's more, in addition to money, they have additional support. For example, the U.S. agricultural department informed the market in early March that the impact of the financial crisis has not subsided.

The global textile market demand continues to be weak, and coupled with the influence of factors such as climate, various unfavorable factors increase during the cotton planting period.

Looking around the world, no one dares to ignore the influence of the United States in this era. The impact of its public calls on the market can be imagined.

The power of public propaganda alone has forced many parts of the world to drastically reduce cotton planting areas, because no one dares to continue large-scale planting and risk losses.

But in fact, the aftermath of the financial crisis has long gone, and the economy abroad has begun to recover significantly, stimulated by the emerging industries of mobile Internet and smartphones.

Domestically, the 4 trillion yuan investment in infrastructure has driven social capital on a scale far beyond imagination, which just proves the saying that there is never a shortage of funds in the market, but what is lacking is confidence.

When people are generally optimistic about the future economic development, they are naturally willing to invest money in consumption, thereby driving the economic cycle in a positive direction.

The textile industry was the most directly affected. When countless new orders began to come in, all the business owners who trusted the American authorities and released information were stunned.

But before they could react, the U.S. Agriculture Department spoke out again at the end of April: Oh, sorry, our previous judgment was wrong, the economic environment is now stable and improving.

But don't worry. The global cotton raw material stocks are sufficient, and the American cotton planting area is large and the quality is good, which is enough to supply the world, so there is no need to worry.

But by that time, the best planting period for cotton had passed, and it was too late for everyone to remedy the situation. They could only watch the cotton futures prices skyrocket without being able to do anything.

By the end of September, the American authorities will come out to express regret because, due to multiple factors, the global cotton supply has plummeted and the demand has skyrocketed this year.

The domestic production and inventory in the United States are far from the actual data according to previous statistics, and are not enough to supply the global market demand. In short, prices are about to rise, and it will be too late if you don't get on board.

By October, when cotton began to be harvested on a large scale around the world, a check of the data revealed that total production had plummeted as expected.

White Elephant, a traditional major cotton exporter, was banned from exporting due to special reasons. The combination of various special reasons pushed the current price of cotton to the 30,000 mark for a time.

It has such a big mouth that it lets the family say all the good and bad things.

But we are not time travelers, and we cannot accurately judge the truth or falsity of information. We can only follow the market trend.

The most fundamental factor here is that Squid Capital intends to take advantage of the opportunity to stir up trouble, targeting the Dongda Textile Industry, and wants to use the opportunity to complete the industry layout and control the life and death of the global textile industry.

Many people with discerning eyes have already noticed that something is amiss, but there are paid media outlets and economists who are openly confusing the public in an attempt to interfere with the judgment of the top leaders.

An overall strategic shift involving a country's lifeline industry is never a simple or easy task, as there are too many interests that need to be coordinated and the time span is too long.

By the time they finally reached a conclusion, it was too late. The authorities were finally forced to take out 200 to 300 billion RMB to subsidize the market and carry out bottom-up acquisitions.

This stabilized the situation and prevented the entire industry from collapsing, but the impact it brought will have a profound impact on the country's strategic direction in the next five to ten years.

"Enough tuition has been paid. Now it's time to fight back against the predators."

Li Zehua was very happy because of his special relationship with the Five Military Commandery, and he was always given priority when applying for special cooperation.

If it were another company, they would have no choice but to forget about using a confidential port for transportation.

Not to mention renting a secret warehouse, even if it is idle, it is impossible to give it to us.

But after adding a cotton planting contract with the Western Region Construction Governor's Office for 100 to 150 million tons and a guaranteed minimum of over 200 billion, all obstacles disappeared instantly, and the Five Armies Governor's Office even made thoughtful inquiries.

Need help with transportation?
Fortunately, Li Zehua still has the Yunyun Bang and the Tongda Group to help with transportation. This is the absolute advantage of holding core resources.

On the other hand, such a large amount of transportation resources can also indirectly stimulate the rapid expansion of Yunyunbang. The newly joined drivers will be exhausted from transporting cotton every day in the next few months.

If it were anyone else, there would be no way they could secretly eat up such a large amount of cotton without being noticed.

Including cotton seeds, planting area, overseas transportation and domestic warehousing, there is a risk of large-scale leakage in any link.

And he did it through Southeast Asian allies and domestic purchasing channels. Even if some of it was noticed, it would be difficult for outsiders to see the full picture through one line.

At best, we can assume that some people in the market are foresighted and aware of the risks and stock up in advance. The same is true for the long orders placed in the Chicago trading market, which are scattered and hidden.

In the transportation and warehousing links, there is no need to worry about information leakage. Instead, theft and fire prevention work needs to be done properly.

Poor Gu Shijie, he is already too busy recruiting people for the group's various businesses, and now he has to add the task of recruiting tens of thousands of security guards for Qingyun Property Company. The big boss even specifically mentioned that he does not want any non-demobilized soldiers.

But he was exhausted. He had to recruit all the people before May Day and send them to designated locations for unified training. They said they wanted to develop a five-star security certification training system for high-end properties.

The requirements are very high, and this item alone will cost hundreds of millions of dollars in additional expenditure. I don’t know what the boss is thinking.

"It's said to be training, but in fact it's to guard the warehouse. Who knows whether it's true or not."

Li Zehua laughed in his heart. He didn't tell anyone about this. Even those who were carrying out the specific task just thought that he wanted to make a fortune by taking advantage of the increase in cotton prices.

Just as she was about to continue the conversation with Xu Xin, she suddenly saw two police cars driving down the bridge from afar, and hurriedly said, "Sister Xin, this is it for now, we can discuss the details in person when you get to Shanghai.

I have something else to do, I'm hanging up now."

"Hey, wait~"

Hearing the busy tone on the phone, Xu Xin could only hang up with a wry smile, and then wondered which good friends around him could be called on.

A deposit of 50 million is not low, but with a net profit of 50 million as a backup, this matter becomes very promising.

No money?

The bank has a lot of money...

"Sir, I asked her, but she didn't say anything in the car."

Zhang Tao was the first to go forward and whispered to the person in charge in the car, and then he moved the people to his own car.

Li Zehua didn't say anything, just nodded silently, then got into the car and untied the black cloth covering the woman's face. Who else could it be but Lin Qingyi?

He didn't care that there was just one more person. He held Lin Qingyi in his arms, patting her gently to comfort her who hadn't recovered yet. "It's okay. Everything is over. I'm here."

Lin Qingyi was a little girl who had never experienced such a scene before. She was terrified. When she saw clearly that it was him, she couldn't help crying... (End of this chapter)